From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 69402
Date: 2012-04-21
> Geminated /xx/ is rare in Old English, but we find it e.g. in <hweohhol>Instead of "both", read "all three".
> (one of the non-Vernerian variants of the 'wheel' word), and in Old
> Northumbrian <æhher> 'ear of corn' and <tæh(h)er>, both with the
> sporadic but rather common West Germanic obstruent gemination before a
> liquid (*xWexWla-, *ax(i)r- < *axiz-, *taxra-). There are several other
> examples, such as the verb <tiohhian>/<teohhian> 'consider'.